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Recent advancements in graph representation learning have led to the emergence of condensed encodings that capture the main properties of a graph. However, even though these abstract representations are powerful for downstream tasks, they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-21 Cristian Bodnar , Cătălina Cangea , Pietro Liò

Graph embeddings play a critical role in graph representation learning, allowing machine learning models to explore and interpret graph-structured data. However, existing methods often rely on opaque, high-dimensional embeddings, limiting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Astrit Tola , Funmilola Mary Taiwo , Cuneyt Gurcan Akcora , Baris Coskunuzer

Node classification on text-attributed graphs (TAGs) is a fundamental task with broad applications in citation analysis, social networks, and recommendation systems. Current GNN-based approaches suffer from shallow text encoding and heavy…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Ziqing Wang , Kaize Ding

In this paper, we develop a novel local graph pooling method, namely the Separated Subgraph-based Hierarchical Pooling (SSHPool), for graph classification. We commence by assigning the nodes of a sample graph into different clusters,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Zhuo Xu , Lixin Cui , Ming Li , Yue Wang , Ziyu Lyu , Hangyuan Du , Lu Bai , Philip S. Yu , Edwin R. Hancock

Multi-Agent Policy Gradient (MAPG) has made significant progress in recent years. However, centralized critics in state-of-the-art MAPG methods still face the centralized-decentralized mismatch (CDM) issue, which means sub-optimal actions…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Xingzhou Lou , Junge Zhang , Timothy J. Norman , Kaiqi Huang , Yali Du

We propose a novel method for topological analysis of unweighted graphs which is based on \textit{persistent homology}. The proposed method maps the input graph to a complete weighted graph where the weighting function maps each edge to a…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2020-07-31 Padraig Corcoran

For deep learning problems on graph-structured data, pooling layers are important for down sampling, reducing computational cost, and to minimize overfitting. We define a pooling layer, nervePool, for data structured as simplicial…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Sarah McGuire Scullen , Ernst Röell , Elizabeth Munch , Bastian Rieck , Matthew Hirn

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have shown remarkable success across various scientific fields, yet their adoption in critical decision-making is often hindered by a lack of interpretability. Recently, intrinsically interpretable GNNs have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Cheng Xin , Fan Xu , Xin Ding , Jie Gao , Jiaxin Ding

Many optimization, inference and learning tasks can be accomplished efficiently by means of decentralized processing algorithms where the network topology (i.e., the graph) plays a critical role in enabling the interactions among…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-08-06 Vincenzo Matta , Augusto Santos , Ali H. Sayed

Graph classification is an important learning task for graph-structured data. Graph neural networks (GNNs) have recently gained growing attention in graph learning and have shown significant improvements in many important graph problems.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Tao Wen , Elynn Chen , Yuzhou Chen

Recently, there has been considerable research interest in graph clustering aimed at data partition using the graph information. However, one limitation of the most of graph-based methods is that they assume the graph structure to operate…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Yiming Wang , Dongxia Chang , Zhiqian Fu , Yao Zhao

Following the success of convolution on non-Euclidean space, the corresponding pooling approaches have also been validated on various tasks regarding graphs. However, because of the fixed compression quota and stepwise pooling design, these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Junran Wu , Xueyuan Chen , Ke Xu , Shangzhe Li

Data defined over a network have been successfully modelled by means of graph filters. However, although in many scenarios the connectivity of the network is known, e.g., smart grids, social networks, etc., the lack of well-defined…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-08 Alberto Natali , Mario Coutino , Geert Leus

Popular node embedding methods such as DeepWalk follow the paradigm of performing random walks on the graph, and then requiring each node to be proximate to those appearing along with it. Though proved to be successful in various tasks,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Zhengrong Xue , Ziao Guo , Yiwei Guo

Computational topology is an area that revisits topological problems from an algorithmic point of view, and develops topological tools for improved algorithms. We survey results in computational topology that are concerned with graphs drawn…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-09-06 Éric Colin de Verdière

Graph partitioning is the problem of dividing the nodes of a graph into balanced partitions while minimizing the edge cut across the partitions. Due to its combinatorial nature, many approximate solutions have been developed, including…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Azade Nazi , Will Hang , Anna Goldie , Sujith Ravi , Azalia Mirhoseini

Neural networks encode inputs as high-dimensional vectors, known as representations, that capture how models process data by encoding task-relevant structure and semantics. Representation alignment refers to the degree to which different…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Xinyuan Yan , Rita Sevastjanova , Mennatallah El-Assady , Bei Wang

Graph pooling has gained attention for its ability to obtain effective node and graph representations for various downstream tasks. Despite the recent surge in graph pooling approaches, there is a lack of standardized experimental settings…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Pengyun Wang , Junyu Luo , Yanxin Shen , Ming Zhang , Shaoen Qin , Hanwen Xing , Siyu Heng , Xiao Luo

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have revolutionized the field of graph learning by learning expressive graph representations from massive graph data. As a common pattern to train powerful GNNs, the "pre-training, adaptation" scheme first…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Xingbo Fu , Zhenyu Lei , Zihan Chen , Binchi Zhang , Chuxu Zhang , Jundong Li

There has been an increased interest in applying machine learning techniques on relational structured-data based on an observed graph. Often, this graph is not fully representative of the true relationship amongst nodes. In these settings,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-08-05 Florence Regol , Soumyasundar Pal , Jianing Sun , Yingxue Zhang , Yanhui Geng , Mark Coates